- Indeed, Reddit is launching its own native image hosting service. The feature is rolling out to a small number of users and can host static images up to 20MB and GIFs up to 100MB directly on Reddit. What’s that mean for Imgur? There’s no dramatic breakup; Reddit will still be rife with Imgur links and Imgur has a robust community of its own. [Reddit via TechCrunch]
- In other news, Microsoft is banning some commonly used weak passwords like “123456.” Their banned list will be dynamically generated by analyzing the passwords that attackers typically prey upon, in addition to what’s most commonly used, so no more QWERTY69 for you. [Gizmodo]
- Google has prevailed in a copyright fight with Oracle about the use of an API in Android that was originally developed by Java. A jury declared the utilization of the code to be fair use; Oracle had been seeking $9 billion. [Ars Technica]
- You can now share short clips from Twitch streams on social sites like Twitter and Facebook. Just hit the new ‘Clip’ button and they’ll generate a 30 second video clip—composed of the previous 25 seconds and the 5 seconds that followed after you clicked. [Twitch via The Verge]
- This content-aware cropping feature that is coming soon to Photoshop is rad:
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